Birds have fascinated artists throughout the ages. John Audubon drew and painted thousands of birds culminating in a book called Birds of America. John ventured into the American frontier, artists and naturalist, he painted detailed illustrations of birds in their...
Georgia O’Keeffe was born and raised on a farm in Wisconsin in 1887. She longed to be an artist from an early age and her talents were well recognized by her classmates. After high school she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and a year later she...
Georgia O’Keeffe was born on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin in 1887 and longed to be an artist from when she was a child. When she was 18 she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and a year later went to study at the Art Students League of New York. She worked...
Perspective is a technique used by artists and designers to show three dimensional objects on a flat surface. It was first developed during the Renaissance by artists and architects to depict buildings in a more realistic way. It is based on the understanding that as...
Online modeling software will provide you with a variety of architectural modeling tools that will allow you to render and model 3D images directly on a web browser on a Chromebook, desktop, or laptop computer, or surface, but for best results, a mouse and a computer...
Low Poly is a style of design that translates an image into a polygon tessellation using tree sided polygons. The sharp angles and fractal appearance give the subject a vibrant and striking style. There are numerous methods for creating a Low Poly image in Photoshop...
Chuck Close creates large realistic portraits using small squares of color to show the features of the face. His techniques led him to a great deal of fame in the 1960s and by the 1970s, Close’s work was shown in the world’s finest galleries, and he was...
https://eos.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpdQA6V1zeXv0vr Named from the ancient Roman sun deity Sol, the solar system consisted of seven visible moving objects in the sky. Like many ancient cultures, the ancient Greeks observed how certain lights moved differently...
Knowing how to tie knots can be very helpful by itself, whether your fishing, camping, or tying off a boat, there are many knots that come in handy for various reasons. For our purposes we’ll use rope and knots to learn about art elements of line, shape, and...
Sole Swapper was inspired by the practice of swapping the sole of one sneaker and adhering them to the another in order to customize them. This project is intended to develop skills with the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator while exploring the customizations that can be...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NYSSSA is offering training in the specific disciplines of ballet, choral studies, dance, media arts, orchestral studies, theatre and visual arts for the summer of 2018. The schools partner with artists from world renown performing arts...
Los tableros del humor o los tableros de la inspiración son una manera para que el diseñador establezca un tema para su línea de modas, definiendo elementos del color, de la armonía del color, de la textura, y del patrón. Los diseñadores pueden inspirarse en una...
Mood boards or Inspiration boards are a way for the designer to establish a theme for their line of fashions, defining elements of color, color harmony, texture, and pattern. Designers can be inspired by a season, a culture, a place, or a a variety of things from...
The early video games are sometimes refereed to as the 8 bit video game era, these include games such as Donkey Kong and Pac Man. In these games a pixal-ated character, known as a sprite, moves over a static, or sometime scrolling background. The Atari 2600 was...
There are myriad patterns and woven fabric for the fashion designer to choose from. Some patterns are hundreds of years old and have been in use for centuries. Many patterns have cultural or national origins. It is important for the fashion designer to be able to...
